shirtwaist

The last evening you flamed out into beauty you wore your old blue flannel shirtwaist that Mrs.

She dropped her iron on the shirtwaist, clutched at the board, fumbled it, caved in at the knees and hips, and like a half-empty sack collapsed on the floor, her long shriek rising in the pent room to the acrid smell of scorching cloth.

She wears a white shirtwaist, which represents, perhaps, half a week's labor painting cans.

He had been accustomed to her only in trim tailor suits and shirtwaists, or in riding costume of velvet corduroy, and he was not prepared for this new revelation.

Yet Blatch permanently alienated working-class members of the Women's Trade Union League when she voted with wealthy reformers who had sought to settle the women shirtwaist workers' strike by depriving embattled workers of their right to organize.

Take a moment today and remember the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, the massive Greenwich Village tragedy that, 100 years ago today, killed 146 workersmostly young women, many of them Jewsand helped spur the United States's nascent labor movement.

New York, NY, March 24, 2011 --(PR.com)-- Disability attorneys at Markhoff & Mittman are pleased to announce that Partner Daniel Elias and his band are participating in The 10th Annual Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Memorial Annual Fund Raising Dinner for its' Scholarship Program this month which marks the 100th anniversary of New York city's most deadly workplace disaster until 9/11.

Eventually the sweatshop conditions become unbearable, and she leaves to work at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory.

A young woman dressed in a linen shirtwaist dress with matching hat, snaps a picture with a box camera of a person who was photographing her at the same time.

Weber has fashioned a historical mystery based on the historic 1911 fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Co.

In 1911, New York City's Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire killed 146 workers, mostly young immigrant women.